Example sentences of "it [was/were] [noun sg] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MOST of Ravenna 's history and its art treasures revolve around the years 402-476AD when it was capital of the Western Roman Empire . |
| 2 | Haynes fell with the score on 57 , Gomes was missed immediately and Greenidge was missed when he had 110 ; apart from that it was batsmanship of the highest quality . |
| 3 | The ÖVP in Carinthia , although it was part of the provincial governing coalition dominated by Haider 's FPÖ , nevertheless supported an SPÖ resolution passed by the Landtag calling for Haider 's resignation . |
| 4 | It was part of the divine plan , linked with famine , flood , and plague as a manifestation of God 's punishment for sins committed . |
| 5 | It was part of the general understanding that supporters would be asked to express preferences for all the UUUC candidates in any one constituency . |
| 6 | It was part of the intensified scrutiny of female behaviour and the sexual habits of the urban poor , under the impact of social and political conditions in mid-nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 7 | It was part of the deep past of this country , a past that could always be felt . |
| 8 | All this was taken for granted ; it was part of the Pahlavi style . |
| 9 | On another , it was part of the wider Middle East conflict involving all Arab States in their war against Israel . |
| 10 | By 1676 it was part of the main Oxford to Coventry road and of course remains as a major trunk road today . |
| 11 | It was part of the defoliant Agent Orange , that the US forces sprayed on Vietnamese forests during the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 12 | It was part of the larger movement of self-improvement by working people and not surprisingly , given Nonconformist domination , it used religious language and insisted on ‘ conversion ’ and renunciation . |
| 13 | Many people feel that that constituted a deliberate attempt by the city council to block Goodwood road , even though the council knew that it was part of the long-planned eastern relief road . |
| 14 | For centuries it was part of the richest life support system in the world . |
| 15 | For him it was part of the natural order of things that a rising ‘ larger nation ’ like Prussia should absorb Poland and the Poles . |
| 16 | It was part of the same southern European pattern that at the same time Greece shook off one more episode of military dictatorship , and with it the monarchy , and established a democratic republic . |
| 17 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 18 | This will result in limited choice for the consumer and a lack of innovation ( eg British Telecom phone equipment , which for many years was severely limited whilst it was part of the public sector ) . |
| 19 | It was part of the social self-definition of the patronizing household , often deliberately in terms residual from the true courts , to assume what was at once a responsibility and an honour ! |
| 20 | But Coun Susan Latter said they should support the application as it was part of the local industry . |
| 21 | The leadership of the state knew in large measure what was wanted : it was part of the national — popular consciousness as well as being itself a result of the convention between church and Irish parliamentary party in the previous century . |
| 22 | Yes , ma'am , I understand ; and I have worked with children before … well , when I was at the nuns ’ school , it was part of the older pupils ' duty to be in charge of two or three of the younger ones to see they washed properly and … well , things like that , and just before I left I was doing this . ’ |
| 23 | She excused his erratic behaviour because she assumed it was linked to business pressures and that it was part of the aggressive masculinity which she prized . |
| 24 | To attract bigger audiences was not just a bonus , it was part of the whole logic of the industry . |
| 25 | The first jennies were hand worked and small enough to be operated in the cottages ; as Maxine Berg has put it : " It was part of the domestic system , the machine of the poor . " |
| 26 | It was part of the nearby Harrington Hall Estate and was in use until the end of the second World War . |
| 27 | It was part of the Greek conception of reason , after all , that reason was not just a purely intellectual affair but carried over into the life-world , with considerable practical implications . |
| 28 | It was evening of the following day . |
| 29 | It was murder of the first degree . |
| 30 | It was repayment of the long-standing debt she owed the Americans from the 1982 Falklands War ) . |